Cleff nodded, then looked to Howling. She was a lot more disciplined than Maochao, for Maochao was a carefree spirit, while Howling was an obedient one. She took a step forward and narrowed her eyes, already setting her eyes on the goal.

"Go, Howling."

Cleff would move backward, giving Howling some room. Immediately, what would form around Howling's arm would be a massive cannon-like thing (the thing in her pic), which she would aim at Cross. Once aimed, the cannon would fire off an immense and powerful laser stream in his general direction. Howling had her eye carefully on Cross.

*Cross dipped off to the side and neared howling in a matter of milliseconds before the beam ended! He approached her from her right side charging his fist and aiming to punch her in the face with a lightning flame covered fist that would be powerful and would paralyze if it connected, to shake howling up Cross' fist would dip into a portal the LAST fraction of a second before it connected and appear at her back side*

Because Howling was dog-based, she had both keen hearing and smell, her smell exceeding that of Maochao's, though her hearing practically the same. She wasn't one for sight, like Maochao was, but was still pretty perceptive, anyway. The moment Cross neared, she would clench her other fist, aiming for an open spot on his body. This is when Howling saw his fist go into a portal. Flickering her ears a bit, she could tell that it was coming from behind her, so she sped up her own punch as to make sure she was out of range only slightly of Cross' punch.

Howling: Wolf Fang Palm!!

If the attack connected, she would be consecutively punching Cross in rapid succession with just that one arm at almost blinding speeds, surging some sort of powerful, paralyzing current through her punches as well, in an attempt to keep him in one place. Her eyes gleamed for a moment, and then her Puchi Machines came into play very quickly as she lowered her launcher.

The Puchi Machines were similar to Maochao's, and even though Maochao's were connected to her body, they could have easily detached just like Howling's could easily connect to her own body. They were dog-like in appearance rather than cat-like. They all tried to surround Cross, one of the floating ones creating a sort of electromagnetic barrier around his general area to keep him in place while the others charged up. Howling would immediately jump backward if she could and would ready her launcher again.

*Cross' fist goin towards the back was a decoy to fake out the howling, for he already planned to use the same vortex technique that he used on the Cat thing on this. His pistol on his right holster would click and the same invisible vortex would manifest around howling this would be when the punches came. Cross, using his ring estimated where the dog thing would strike and buffed up his durability in that place. Granted, howling was definitely testing the limits of his ring but he flew back towards the opposite end of the lab sliding to a stop*

"That was a nice exchange..."

*He said sarcastically. now these other smaller like dog machines manifested themselves. Cross stood in the barrier he could always banish himself later but he wanted to see if his vortex attack connected first, he wasn't interested in these pissy attacks*

Of course, with Howling not expecting the vortex to even by fired, she would be caught within it. She could feel her body beginning to slow down, already causing her to question what was going on at this point in time. She thought that he was manipulating space around her... and as such, would have to retaliate accordingly.

Howling manifested her circular spiked throwing ring, Kyokurin, in one of her hands, and it would start to glow for just a moment, then immediately stopped. Howling then stopped moving completely, eyes locked on Cross.

Her Puchi Machines fired off many rounds of bullets and charged up energy cannon shots as well as electromagnetic pulses at Cross simultaneously, being used for combat whilst Howling was immobile.

*Cross placing up his own lightning flame shield of power surrounding his body defending aptly against the projectiles but he had to move this machines were stronger than he thought. So he signed, banishing himself emerging in a safe place. Although in the process of banishing each of his guns appeared behind each of the machines and shot them hopefully with great concussive force to destroy them completely*

The Puchi Machines were stronger than Cross thought, for they were not destroyed by the shots, however because of said concussive force, they were blown out of the sky and onto the ground, basically malfunctioning now. Howling was not fond of this, bit did not move, still. She did keep her eyes locked on Cross, even after banishment and such, that being her only form of movement. She was waiting... For what? No one knows.

*Cross turned around towards Howling and took his guns out of his holster, something he HARDLY does since he can shoot effectively when they're in the holster. He murmured two names of his guns*

"Murder... Lament"

*They transformed into two long ornamental white rectangular pistols, the both of which Cross stabbed on the ground after a couple seconds of waiting two GIANT eels made out of innocence would swarm the howling coated in the lightning flame, a single touch would paralyze the Howling no matter what it was made out of or what it did, being made out of innocence it would take more than conventional means to stop them*

Howling stayed true to her immobility until she knew the time was right... The very moment when the eels came close enough to her... Right in range.

"Seal Circle Vortex Slash."

The spiked ring she had in her hand would glow again, a vortex appearing in front of her. Naturally, it wasn't invisible, but it had a great range of suction. The eels, being so close since they triggered the seal, would be sucked into the vortex in one fell swoop, a seal appearing on the opening of the vortex before it disappeared into the unknown of whence it came, trapping all that had been sucked into it via the seal. The ring glowed once more and this time became dormant, and Howling winced before raising her launcher again. Her eyes were still locked on Cross and her launcher was charging up a massive amount of energy... Her Puchi Machines were inactive, but she was still going to try to attack without getting shot..